Higher Education Summit

Higher Education Summit

Chicago, IL // 2012

In March of 2012, a group of innovative college students were invited to the Cannon Design Chicago office to redesign the future of higher education. These innovative student leaders and organizers from universities across the United States launched an intimate, immersive, multi-day, discussion that explored post-secondary education as an open-ended design problem.

The students were tasked to create simple rules to modify the complexity of problems we find ourselves facing in higher education. Students representing Cornell University, Vanderbilt
University, Northwestern University, Columbia University, University of Oregon,
University of Hartford, Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and
Arizona State University developed three concepts, which they pitched to a
group of local professionals.